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Age is an important factor in memory for witnessed events.· Dent (1988) found that children usually provide fewer details when asked to remember certain events· Also, children perform much worse than adults.· However, if the child is directly interested in the topic under consideration, then he/she can match adult levels of accuracy.…read more

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Children also appear more keen to accept incorrect information provided by adults for fear of denying adult authority information.…read more

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A study by Roberts and Lamb (1999) investigated 161 interviews with children who had made allegations of abuse.· They found that, in 68 of the interviews, investigators had sometimes misunderstood children's reports and of these, nearly two thirds remained uncorrected by the child.· Example: a child's response "in private" was misinterpreted as "in the privates".…read more

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Some studies have found that children are less accurate than adults. Geiselman and Padilla (1988) found that children between the ages of 7 to 12 years old were less accurate than adults when it came to reporting details of a filmed robbery.…read more

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Ceci and Bruck (1993) have analysed and reviewed the information found on children's memory and they have summarized the main factors that may have an effect on children's EWT.…read more